In part, it's the character of Scorpius: Like Harry himself, he is an unlikely hero who rises up against the odds.
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The fall from grace is embodied in capitalism; man is redeemed as the proletariat rises up against its exploiters and creates a communist utopia.
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In the Quran, too, Moses rises up against the Pharaoh, but his main problem is that the Pharaoh and his people worship false gods.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%Synopsis: In Ridley Scott's retelling of biblical mythology, Moses (Bale) defiantly rises up against the tyrannical rule of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) as he plans to release thousands of slaves and lead them to freedom.
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While it returns over and over again to the downtrodden-rises-up-against-the-subjugator model, the genre has always had a remarkable ability to overlook the persecuted groups—people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities—whose experiences it mines for drama.
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He rises up against Doctor Octopus' plan to detonate New York, saying Keemia is still there.The Amazing Spider-Man #648. Marvel Comics. He is later angered when, during a confrontation between the Sinister Six and the Intelligencia, Doctor Octopus teleports the Wizard into the upper atmosphere using the Intelligencia's equipment.
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Finn and Poe engage the Sith Eternal forces while Rey confronts Palpatine himself. Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca arrive with reinforcements from across the galaxy, and they manage to defeat the Sith Eternal forces. With help from Ben and the spirits of past Jedi, Rey finally destroys Palpatine for good. The galaxy rises up against the First Order, ultimately defeating it after 30 years of its existence.
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Vortigern soon proves to be an "ignorant king", and the wily Hengest manipulates him into ceding over more land and allowing more settlers to come from Germania.Historia Brittonum, ch. 36–38. After a dire period of Saxon encroachment, exacerbated by even more disgraceful behavior on Vortigern's part, Vortimer finally rises up against the Saxons. He pushes them back to Thanet, and meets them in four battles.
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Connor helps Jefferson's rebels withdraw, and works to gain additional support. Washington then addresses the people with a speech, boasting about his plans to invade England and enslave its people for the benefit of America. Eventually, Connor manages to sow enough chaos and enough support that the entire city rises up against Washington. Using a special key provided by Franklin, Connor infiltrates the pyramid and confronts Washington on the roof.
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In one of his significant speeches in parliament he rises up against the government's lack of action in pursuing the murderers and culprits of the White Terror, in particular mass murders committed by Iván Héjjas and his counter-revolutionary task-force. On the next elections in 1922, István Bethlen the Prime Minister personally precepts the Ministry of Internal Affairs to sabotage his election, but regardless Drozdy gains a mandate. The government's intervention finally brings him down on the elections of 1926.
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And if a victim of the flames survives, the victim is paralyzed. Katla is controlled and will obey only a lur, which is owned by the evil warlord Tengil, who uses Katla to terrorize Nangijala. The scale of Katla is so strong that no weapon can injure her or even leave a scratch. When the citizens of Cherry Valley rises up against Tengil, he uses Katla to stop them, but loses the lur to Jonathan Lionheart, one of the protagonists.
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In 19th-century Batavia (modern day Jakarta) a young man, Amallo (Slamet Rahardjo), rises up against his father, Umbu Kapitan (WD Mochtar), after his father's boorishness and irresponsibility lead to his mother's death. This is sparked by the father's subsequent marriage to a mixed-race woman. Amallo begins stealing horses from his father and smuggling weapons used to fight against the Dutch East India Company, for whom his father works. As Amallo struggles against the company, he finds himself becoming more mature.
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At the time of the Roman Empire a Nubian slave rises up against his captors and leads a rebellion. However his bravery is recognised by a Roman General and he is commissioned as a Roman Centurion. Blackhawk took his name from a Hawk that he adopted and assembled a crack platoon from hardened prisoners and other slaves. As with other Finley-Day war stories the basic plot was borrowed from The Dirty Dozen with Blackhawk's squad being singled out for the hardest missions.
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Resistance movements can include any irregular armed force that rises up against an enforced or established authority, government, or administration. This frequently includes groups that consider themselves to be resisting tyranny or dictatorship. Some resistance movements are underground organizations engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military occupation or totalitarian domination. Tactics of resistance movements against a constituted authority range from nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, to guerrilla warfare and terrorism, or even conventional warfare if the resistance movement is strong enough.
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Consequently, State Security agents retaliate by murdering Savage's brother Tom after discovering he had secretly written stories that would be embarrassing to the regime. Savage and his sister Cassie kill all of the agents responsible, only it is discovered that Savage's former-MI6 resistance contact had been behind it and was secretly a collaborator. Savage then kills him and his security team and posts a copy of his brother's work on the Internet. As a result, the resistance, alongside the population, rises up against the Volgan "peacekeepers" and liberates most of Southern England.
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Hans Nicholas Jong, 'Banten rises up against House of Atut', The Jakarta Post, 8 October 2013. On Friday 11 October 2013 Ratu Atut, in response to an official summons, attended a session at the KPK to answer questions about the bribery case involving her brother.Hans Nicholas Jong, 'Banten Governor questioned over Akil bribery scandal', The Jakarta Post, 12 October 2013. Issues of possible corruption surrounding Atut's family widened significantly in late October when the KPK announced that an investigation had been launched into matters under the administration of Atut's sister-in-law, Tangerang Mayor Airin Rachmi Diani.
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During an interview released in 2009 to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Mogol explained that "The Italian society in that years was very conformist. And [in the song] there's a couple which rises up against conventions, claiming a right to individual liberty, a right to love." As revealed by Mogol himself, the song was inspired by Mogol's relationship with a young woman after the end of his marriage, and by his feeling that "at that time, the orthodox disapproved that kind of things." An English-language version of the song, titled "A Song to Feel Alive", with lyrics adapted by Peter Powell, was also recorded by Battisti and included in his album Images, released in 1977.
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In a dystopian future, the world is dominated by a dictatorial regime ruled by a dwarfish mutant-cyborg man who calls himself "Banglar the Tyrant", and he commands an army of brainwashed human soldiers, vicious mutants and non-sentient combat robots. For years he ruled the global superpower unchallenged, until a rebel army rises up against him, led by a dictator human named Mulk. Unable to defeat Banglar and his mutant armies using conventional weapons and fearing the World Government's forces were closing in on them, Mulk's rebel army decides to take one last shot by sending a trio of self-aware combat androids styled after Japanese Ninjas after Banglar in a suicide mission, knowing they would self-destruct but girded with bombs to take him out as they go. In the end they manage to reach Banglar's fortress, fighting through his mutant legion and detonating their bombs, self- destructing themselves and Banglar the Tyrant in the process.
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